This is an analysis of the poem A Revolutionary Hero that begins with:
Old Joe is gone, who saw hot Percy goad
His slow artillery up the Concord road,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111101 01010010111 0111010111 11001110111 0011110111 001001010111 1111011101 11110110001 11110100101 01110110111 11110111001 1111000101 1101000101 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word had is repeated.
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